Am I the only one who thinks this year's Senate results are not that big a deal?

[JVS]

The tide comes in and then goes back out. The 2014 senate elections are a review of the senators elected in 2008. 2008 was a fantastic year for our party and a terrible time for republicans. They fucked up royally and couldn't deny it. Let's all hope we never see the economy so far down the toilet again. It's only natural that as things returned to normal the electorate would go back to their usual patterns. These southern seats weren't going to stay blue forever.

I'm much more bothered that the 2010 teabagger crop of governors up north managed to hold on except for Pennsylvania. Ohio and Wisconsin evidently haven't had their fill.

[Cha]

1. It is what it is.. and now we deal with it. Unreal how the states decided in the middle of all

this shite they wanted a thieving lying repub gov because life just isn't hard enough yet. Or did those who really needed to.. get out and vote?

Good ol Pennsylvania is lucky and Gov Malloy held on to Connecticut. Ha! And, we got another Dem Gov in Hawaii who wasn't the incumbent.. made history.

The brainwashers won.. mostly. We'll see how long that takes to pop back to reality.

[davidn3600]

8. It's typical political cycles

Seriously if you look over the way politics has worked since the end of World War 2, there seems to be somewhat of an equilibrium. When one party begins to amass a majority, the pendulum begins to swing the opposite way.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Depends on how far right you want the Country to go. Third Way'ers are ecstatic about the election

results.

[JoePhilly]

9. Sounds like the far left is thrilled ... the DINOs are gone!!!

So now ... the far left is putting forward super exceptional progressive candidates so they can prove those candidates will do better than DINOs.

So, who are those candidates?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I'm with you

The worm turns in 2016 as far as the Senate goes.

The majority of the Senate battleground in the next election cycle will be fought on Republican turf, with the GOP defending 24 seats to the Democrats’ 10. There is more trouble for the party beneath those raw numbers; only two Democratic seats are in competitive states, while more than half a dozen Republican incumbents face re-election in states President Barack Obama carried at least once.

Republicans appear to have put themselves in as strong a position as possible, coming out of the midterms with potentially a 54-seat majority. But the next electoral fight for the Senate fundamentally looks nothing like 2014: Democrats are on offense, the playing field is packed with pricey media markets and every race is positioned down-ballot from a presidential contest.

http://atr.rollcall.com/senate-races-2016-outlook-republicans-democrats/

However, I still think we need a change in those Democratic 'leadership' committees to make it a tko.

[bigwillq]

4. I agree with you, JVS.

Comes in and goes back out.

It's the way politics is.

[marble falls]

5. I think if the DNC steps back and lets the GOP and Tea Party go at it for two years, 2016 will be...

majorly blue.

[JoePhilly]

10. Agree.

GOP wins mid-terms because their voters vote in every election. Low turn out in mid-terms gives them a chance to win, whereas the higher turn-out in Presidential years, helps the Dems.

[marble falls]

13. Could be a plausible chance. But first of all we had better quit trying to be attractive to....

"Christian" Conservatives.

[HereSince1628]

6. If I hadn't lived the Wisconsin Experience I'd say tides are great...

But sometimes it's not a normal tide, but rather a sunami whose damage undoes centuries of effort.

[rock]

7. The CONservatives own the media

So you hear what they are "thinking". Furthermore they have been busy the last two to three decades nurturing their view: everything is black or white, on or off, full or empty. They have no judgement for gradients. So to answer your question, "No," but we're gonna to hear very little discussion about it.

[NV Whino]

11. Doesn't bother me much

Because nothing has changed. There will still be gridlock and obstruction a nothing will get done. I don't really expect 2016 to be any different.

[sorefeet]

12. I think the republicans and baggers

will fight and bicker and bullshit and not get anything done for the people but cost them more millions in pissed away tax money. We need Bernie for 2016 and then America can change for the better. And maybe live in less fear of the cops and corporates.

[KamaAina]

14. I would imagine so.

Yertle & Co., coupled with Boner (hic), are about to unleash massive structural damage upon this country. Obama can't veto everything; if they pass a budget with social services zeroed out, he can't put it back in.